2025: The Year We Got Used To It
A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce - and how 2026 will need us all to be much noisier.
We are officially at the precipice of the end of 2025, yet another year that went, if I’m being very honest, a bit tits up, and when I look back at the past twelve months, a big part of me can’t help but quietly mutter to myself, what the actual fuck just happened here1?
And I’m not talking in the rhetorical sense you’ve come to expect from me - I’m talki…
